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Thursday, October 2, 2014

Qualifiers had a good day at the Women's ITA Riviera All-American Championships, with five of them advancing to the second round, and three of them defeating seeds.

The most surprising result came from Maegan Manasse of Cal, who defeated top seed and defending champion Jamie Loeb of North Carolina 6-4, 5-7, 6-4. Florida freshman Brooke Austin took out No. 4 seed and 2012 finalist Julia Elbaba of Virginia 7-6(6), 2-6, 7-5 and Saska Gavrilovska of Texas A&M beat 2014 NCAA finalist Lynn Chi of Cal 6-3, 7-6(5). With additional wins by Caroline Doyle of Stanford and Klara Fabikova of Cal, nearly a third of the remaining players are qualifiers.

Five men's qualifiers plus a lucky loser made it to the second round, but all four pre qualifiers--AJ Catanzariti, Jonathan Ho, Tomas Stillman and Jack Murray--saw their tournament end. Qualifiers to advance were Thai Kwiatkowski of Virginia, Quentin Monaghan of Notre Dame, Sebastian Stiefelmeyer of Louisville, Dominik Koepfer of Tulane and Nicolas Alvarez of Duke. Andreas Bjerreus of Virginia Tech was the lucky loser into the second round.

At the $100,000 Sacramento Challenger, Jared Donaldson won his second round match, defeating Luca Vanni of Italy 7-6(3), 7-6(5). He will play top seed Sam Querrey in Friday's quarterfinals. In the other quarterfinals, Tim Smyczek(2) faces Denis Kudla(5), Stefan Kozlov meets Rhyne Williams and Bjorn Fratangelo takes on John Millman of Australia. Updated draws can be found here.